Wayfarer

You won't get agreement on that from the person you're talking to. If Trump supporters came to agree with that, it would be game over for Trump. So th...

You’re being fed lines. Some stories don’t have two sides, and this is one of them.

Fair enough, but this grows out of the cultural dynamics of the West, in particular, due to the emphasis in Western culture on 'belief' as the definin...

Meanwhile, at the White House, Trump hosted and toasted one of his favourite dictators - 'Trump emerged from hours of talks with Recep Tayyip Erdo?an ...

Photographer captures picture of Republican impeachment defense strategies in their natural habitat: https://betanews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/s...

I interpret it to be about the stock standard realist claim that things are 'mind-independent'. I would paraphrase it to be arguing that "those things...

But the kind of realism that the OP is criticizing doesn't see it that way at all. A case in point is Einstein's battles with Bohr and others about th...

Here's my fantasy. After the public hearings, it becomes impossible to deny that Trump violated his oath of office and broke the law. Republicans, eve...

There are none so blind as those who will not see. Republican attempts to deny the obvious would be hilarious were the stakes not so serious.

I don't think you're defending what the OP is criticizing.

I think, independence, intuition, reason, compassion, and a degree of innate intelligence. First and foremost, those drawn to it, and also who have re...

I wouldn’t romanticize it too much. Somebody’s always going to get banned.

There’s plenty of people I fiercely disagree with whom ought not to banned. Besides it wasn’t the content, it was the sheer and bald-faced incompetenc...

I don't concur. I think TS' banning was quite justified and that he had had a very poor signal-to-noise ratio for a long while. Obviously the overall ...

You notice the hidden assumption in your last question? The 'real world'? We need to see that we have a role in 'creating' that 'real world' - that's ...

Of course. This is where, as I've often noted, Kant's notion of the compatibility of empirical realism and transcendental idealism. In other words, Ka...

I have to say I mostly agree with this argument. Consider what follows as footnotes. This seems to me a description of modern or scientific realism, w...

You would probably like the book this review was about - Daniel Dennett's 'Breaking the Spell', an attempt at a naturalist account of religion. (Perso...

Yes, you're wrong. It's typical of all the bullshit being spouted by various fringe conspiracists. More Alt-Right misinformation. The only corruption ...

It’s becoming obvious there is abundant evidence of Trump having broken the law and violated his oath of office in his dealings with Ukraine, to the p...

My replies tend to be rather improvisational but it wasn't a conscious decision to omit those topics. I will come back later, I'm on the clock at the ...

Have a glance at Frege on Knowing the Third Realm, Tyler Burge. Makes the case for Frege’s Platonism. Not really, too busy with mundane chores right a...

Of course stones exist, but defining 'what it means to exist' in such terms is another matter altogether.

So do you accept his ‘immaterialist’ account? Because it certainly seems hard to reconcile with your 1(a).

The human condition is in some sense a predicament, in that, unlike creatures, humans are blessed/cursed with self-awareness (which is itself the cond...

This is when you notice that secularism, which is ostensibly a value-free framework within which ideas of all kinds can be debated and discussed, actu...

Of course it was. I have a BA including two years of undergraduate philosophy, I understand it perfectly clearly, thank you. It is the independent exi...

No, I don't think that's it. Your OP starts with: which is basically the claim that 'the existence of material objects is indubitable'. But it was jus...

It is exactly the point of what I wrote. Do you understand why Samuel Johnson said that of George Berkeley's philosophy, and why his response is regar...

To add to which, the basic nature of ‘material things’, if that is presumed to be atomic matter, is itself unresolved at this point in history. The ap...

Read the thread title. It didn’t request a peer-reviewed paper, it asked ‘what is your philosophy?’ I consider myself lucky to have encountered people...

It's obviously not an objective matter. When I enrolled in Philosophy 101, the anecdote of Socrates and the oracle of Delphi, from which this is drawn...

There is a reason why necessary truths are held to be true ‘in all possible worlds’. specifically, that no world in which such truths did not obtain c...

[ Your ‘i.e’ is yours alone, Hume never used such an expression. He distinguished analytical and empirical but never used the expression ‘the real wor...

that's a deep moral quandary. However one thing you might consider is that the Biblical notion of 'creation' doesn't actually equate to the physical a...

I was about to embark on that, bearing in mind I'm snatching opportunities whilst at Daily Grind. General truths, reflections on the human condition a...

really excellent post, and you ought to be teaching the subject. Me, I'm sixties person. Philosophy started for me with the Summer of Love and Sgt Pep...

The brain itself doesn’t act - to say that it does is the mereological fallacy, to attribute to parts that which is an activity or property of the who...

Now that is a metaphysical question.

No, it's a contingent fact.

I recall reading about an experiment in cognitive science in which kittens were raised in an environment where there were no vertical obstacles, only ...

you’re right, I meant ‘polytheism’. Can you provide some examples?

Well, this is a philosophy forum, and I think the 'unreasonable efficacy of mathematics in the natural sciences' says something important. And? Scient...

Point of order - monotheism is not the belief in a numerically singular 'God' who is on the same plane as other 'Gods' however it has inevitably come ...

Of course it's not 'the same as mathematics', but the point I'm making is that the mathematical order of the cosmos is what makes science possible, as...

I would have thought that the whole basis of mathematical physics and indeed much of science in general, is that in finding the kinds of things, and t...

Someone took exception when I pointed out that the word 'ontology' is derived from the first-person participle of the Greek 'ouisia', which is the ver...

From the inventor of the term ‘agnostic’: What I think the question is, is how is agnosticism in this definition, any different from positivism?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rbO8JxP4hg

Look into Brook Ziporynn. I don't much care for him but he might be right up your alley.